Hamish Ivison
Predoctoral Young Investigator
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolHamish Ivison is a PhD researcher and predoctoral investigator at the University of Washington’s H2Lab and Allen Institute for AI alum, combining a decade of software engineering experience with deep expertise in NLP and computational linguistics. He blends academic rigor—grounded in studies across computer science, linguistics and Classical Greek—with practical engineering chops from roles at Optiver, blockchain startups, and major Australian banks. Comfortable across research and production, he has built everything from smart contracts and backend tooling to data-hygiene pipelines while tutoring core CS courses. Based in Seattle, he brings a researcher-developer mindset that excels at turning linguistic insight into reproducible, deployable systems. Notably, his background spans both high-frequency trading environments and open research labs, giving him a rare perspective on performance-critical engineering for language technologies.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at Free Code CampThe University of SydneyExchange Semester, Linguistics, Exchange Semester, Linguistics at University of Edinburgh School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language SciencesHigh School, High School at Sydney Grammar School
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Github Skills (65)
github10
git10
generative-adversarial-network10
patch9
arxiv9
steam8
flask8
subversion8
decompiler8
collaborative-filtering8
ethereum8
machine-learning8
deep-learning7
smart-contracts7
solidity7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hamishivi/pokemongenerator
Aug 2018 - Mar 2022
Generating pokemon (and other things) with GANs
Contributions:95 commits, 5 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 years 8 months
wgandeep-learningwgan-gpgenerative-adversarial-networkmachine-learning
hamishivi/hamishivi.github.io
Jan 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:93 pushes in 4 years 7 months
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